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Re: Thousands of hosts on a gigabit LAN, maybe not
From: Joe Hamelin <joe () nethead com>
Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 16:50:17 -0700
On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 11:53 AM, John Levine <johnl () iecc com> wrote:
Some people I know (yes really) are building a system that will have several thousand little computers in some racks. Each of the computers runs Linux and has a gigabit ethernet interface.
Though a bit off-topic I ran in to this project at the CascadeIT conference. I'm currently in corp IT that is Notes/Windows based so I haven't had a good place to test it but the concept is very interesting. They distributed way they monitor would greatly reduce bandwidth overhead. http://assimproj.org The Assimilation Project is designed to discover and monitor infrastructure, services, and dependencies on a network of potentially unlimited size, without significant growth in centralized resources. The work of discovery and monitoring is delegated uniformly in tiny pieces to the various machines in a network-aware topology - minimizing network overhead and being naturally geographically sensitive. The two main ideas are: - distribute discovery throughout the network, doing most discovery locally - distribute the monitoring as broadly as possible in a network-aware fashion. - use autoconfiguration and zero-network-footprint discovery techniques to monitor most resources automatically. during the initial installation and during ongoing system addition and maintenance. -- Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474
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